Noura Mint Seymali’s latest release, Arbina (Glitterbeat Records), is probably one of the most unusual and intriguing albums I’ve ever...
Whether in Ghana or anywhere else really, a man wearing a denim shirt, hat, and dark sunglasses on a front...
Gaye Su Akyol blends Western rock and the sounds of psychedelia with traditional Turkish-influenced melodies. A dizzying and yet strangely...
It’s not often I can say that reviewing an album made my day, but in the case of Senégalese multi-instrumentalist...
Vaudou Game’s Kidayu is a sophomore album of a second coming of vaudou funk, a genre of orchestral music that...
Dimitra Galani is a Greek singer whose career spans forty years. With her deep, husky voice she is a phenomenon...
Shabaka Hutchings is a musician curious about the relationship between modern and traditional music. His latest free-jazz recording is dedicated to...
Laying down simmering slabs of cumbia and mambo, tempered with a folkloric, tex-mex psychedelic edge, Orkesta Mendoza brings you their...
Following their highly celebrated debut album in 2015, the eclectic 12-piece band from Leeds, Nubiyan Twist, is back with their...
Alien Cartoon is Senegalese artist Ibaaku’s debut album. It consists of 11 pieces of raw electronic dance music, each a...
According to Fantastic Negrito, “Oakland is changing,” from ‘diverse and often unsafe’ to ‘white and safe.’ To him, “now Oakland...
This is music of exceptional variety and coherence in its genre, where it’s possible to listen the most diverse instruments...